New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-06
An Oleaginous Compound.
For many weary hour, poor man,
Mic SCHNEIDER was on the frying pan,
His case was really very hard,
And was very much like trying lard.
-GoodalrS San.
NEARLY FIFTY MILLION BIBLES

Printed in 165 Languages ane
Distributed Broadcast Over the
World.
The American Bible society has JUS
compiled the results of it's work for the
past year. 1t has issued 977,6O vol
umes, besides 500, 900 in foreign lands
This makes the total number of Bible.
issued by the society since its organiza
ton in 1916 1856, PSI. The corrected
proof Of the last pages of the New Tesla
ment in Ponape have been returned
from Micronesia, and the last pages O
the Muskokee Testament from Okmul
gee. The Dakotans want new edition
in their language.
The American Bible society has pub
lished the Bible in all the languages OF
Europe, and in Reval- Estonian, Irish
Finnish, four dialects of Africa, Gsebo
Mpongwe, Benga Dikele, Zulu; in the
languages of the Sandwich Islands anl
| Micronesia: in the Slavic, Bulgarian
Chinese and Japanese, and in ter
North American Indian dialects, max
ing forty-eight in all. Those issued by
the British and Foreign Bible society
| makes the total number of languages
and dialects in which the Bible is print
ed to-day by these societies 165. o.
these the oldest looking are the Irish
Slavonic, Turkish, and Azerbiian Of
Tartar Turkish, Georgian, Syriac, Arab
ic, Ethiopie, Tigre (Which has color
after every word, Amharic, Persian
Pail, Pari- Gujerati. Sindh, Cararese
Malaylam, Undu, Orissa, Siamese, Bur.
man, Tibetah, Karen, Javanese, Coptic,
Cree, Time and Cherokee.
How many translators do you en-
ploy ?" was ask of the Rev. Dr. Alex.
Mclean, one of the secretaries.
''We have no translator. The work
is done by the missionaries, who have
to study the language Of the coun.
try in which they labor. The Bible
society pays their expenses while they
are translating for us.
''How many Bibles have been printed
for the blind?''
''There were issued last year 2O7; the
entire number in forty years is 14,1S4.
These are in the raised letter form.''
sWhat are the new Bibles for the
blind?'
Eve printed twelve years ago a
Bible in the New York point print, and
have printed the Psalms in the same,
and have now completed the Gospel
according to st. john
What is the point print?''
1t is a system Of points that repre-
sent either separately or by combina-
ton the letters Of the alphabet. The
old raised letters could not be readily
detected b. fingers that had become
calloused by basket making, at which
many blind people work. The points
can be felt by the dnllest finger :,
The cost Of supplying the Bible in
foreign lands is 500. 692. "a more than
is received from them. One-ninth .oi
all the families visited by the agents
are destitute of the Bible
1t took DR.. Eli Smith and DR.. Van
Dyck sixteen years to translate the
Bible into Arabic. DR.. Schauffier spent
fourteen years on the Osmanlee version.
Dr.. ScherescheWsky fifteen years to
render the Old Testament into the
Mandarin Colloquial. DR.. Williamson
and Riggs spent forty years on the Da-
kotan version. One of them estimates
that he spent on an average thirty
minutes on every verse he translated.
Since Bible societies were organized
25O versions have been produced in
about 200 languages and dialects.
Ney York Sam.